The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-12-03

Monday was the coolest day ever known at
Waterloo, Iowa, at this season of the year,
the temperature reaching 80 degrees below
zero.
At a single blast about seventeen thousand
tons of rock were moved in Fairhaven, Vt,
recently. The mass dslodged was sixty feet
long and thirty-two feet wide.
Diphtheria of peculiarly fatal character
is prevalent in Montreal, Quebec. Last week
there were thirty-two deaths from the disease,
and the death rate shows no signs of decreas-
ing.
A despatch from Galveston, Texas, says
that the newborn infant of Mr.. and Mrs. l..
w. Giddings, of that city, is the FIRST girl
vouchsafed to the Giddings family for over
120 years.
disc at Wilkesbarre, Pa, has failed, and the
books of the sheriff show that nearly one
hundred failures have occurred in Luzerne
county during the psat month.
On Tuesday while August Gunther, employ
ed in the Hancock Chemical Works, at Han
cock, Michigan, was driving a nail into
scantling saturated with nitroglycerine, an ex-
plosion occurred doing him fatal injury.
A colored man living near MacKinney,
Texas, claims 70 be III years old. A bill of
sale from slave trader, dated in 1850 and
certifying that the centenarian was then 80
years old, is offered in evidence of the asser-
ton.
Mr.. Gaunt, wealthy colored resident Of
Greene county, Ohio, has decided property
valued at $50, 900 to Wilberforce University,
leading colored college. The greatest
single donation heretofore made to the col
lege has been $4,000.
The Navy Department has invited proposals
for supplying submarine vessel for naval
purposes. 1t is stated that the patents Of this
nature are numerous, but no other navy in
the world has yet taken a practical step
towards their adoption.
Extensive fires which have been raging in
the Roxbury and Miry Brook districts in
Connecticut have left clean sweep of more
than 5000 acres. The fires crept slowly and
burned deeply around the roots of sprouts of
young trees, so that it will retard their growth
for years, it is thought.
About twenty-five Americans and eighty
Mexicans, comprising the day shift at FL
Paso Smelling Works, in Ell Paso, Texas,
struck for higher wages on Monday, and
threatened to arm themselves and prevent the
works from running if their demands were
not granted. Officers went to the works, and,
after the discharge of the ringleaders of the
strike, most of the others resumed work.
1t is reported from indianapolis that Gov
ernor Gray has privately investigated charges
of cruelty at the Woman State Reformatory.
He found that the girls are tied up by the
wrists or with handouts and whipped brutally
on the bare backs. Attempts at bribery were
also discovered, and whispers of deeper scan
dals circulate. The Governor recommends
change ofpunishment by solitary confinement,
instead of fogging
Benjamin Cusley and Charles A. Logan,
young men, were rival suitors for the hand of
Elizabeth Waterson, II years old, the daughter
of a well-known farmer at Oxford Junction,
Iowa. The two men met at the girls home
on Tuesday morning and had desperate
fight, the victor to have the prize. Cusley
was successful, driving his rival away at the
point of revolver. Logan was the favorite
with the girl, and on Tuesday afternoon she
shot and killed herself.
According to despatch from Toledo, Ohio,
the Standard Oil Company intends to lay
pipe line from Chicago to New York by way
of the Ohio and Pennsylvania oil fields
When completed the line will be 1000 miles
long. The cost is placed at S5,OO0,OO0. 1t
is stated that the step was made neces-
sary by the high railroad rates consequent
upon the carrying into effect of the Inter
State Commerce law. 1t is said to be the
intention of the company to utilize the oil
pipes 10 Chicago for fuel as well as illuminat-
ing purposes.